David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. They have listed forward revenue figures that are highly questionable and bring the issue of SEC oversight to my mind. Has written a book on venture capital.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Or if you used a paper map to find your way here? In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital. How about any Nokia phones?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

From paying attention to fees to balancing what works for you, here are 13 answers to the question, “Is crowdfunding for startups a good idea? These fees are charged to cover the costs of operating the crowdfunding platform, including marketing, payment processing, and customer support. Why or why not?”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. Call me old school, but I believe in metrics like growth, revenue, and profit. Venture capital has a big say in which companies and projects see the light of day. But there’s a lesson to be learned here: these good times can’t last. Making it” is relative.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Did you know that the physics involved in flippings cats also allow us to operate space telescopes? The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link].

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I wrote about that decision here.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. Here are 4 reasons why you might not want to be VC funded: 1.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. Learn more at Air.inc/ducttape.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

In an effort to make my life easier, I’ve summarized here the steps that will make it much easier for people to read, understand, and hopefully invest in your business. My colleague Paul Bianco serves as interim CFO for a number of ff Venture Capital ’s portfolio companies, and has built and reviewed hundreds of financial models.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Yet many entrepreneurs rely on expensive outside services and outside money, rather than do the networking for a co-founder or two who have the right skills to work for equity. Here is a summary of the top four wrong reasons I see for looking for investors: A desire to start with an impressive infrastructure.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. Here are Richard’s insights and startup advice he shared with us about his entrepreneurial journey….

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. We’re at 70 people, and we’ll do $40 million in revenue this year and should get to cash flow breakeven this quarter. ”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. Here’s why it generates bad CEO behavior. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Download the Startup Options Valuation model here. Such a model is particularly helpful for those founders looking for a co-founder or key employee. Since he graduated, he’s now Founder and CEO of a Latin America-focused based startup, Participa.me (“I participate”).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft. They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? The cliffs?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. Eric Friedman & Dan Kimerling.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. 3) Raise capital. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. Questions I ask Melissa Kwan: [1:38] How has your entrepreneurial journey led you here? [2:32] She is the co-founder and CEO of E webinar.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

The MAFG Thermal Reactors utilize thermal storage tanks heated to high temperatures to produce steam allowing it to run a variety to operations ranging from waste purification to running steam turbines making electricity. You can listen to the recording of today's roundtable here. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one. You’ve raised. Something has to give.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Adams, authors of “ Venture Capital For Dummies ® “ You’ve managed to get the attention of well-established venture capitalists. Not to worry, if you’re having trouble navigating the mystical world of venture capital, you’re in good company. by Nicole Gravagna and Peter K. But then disaster strikes.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

Here is the article from today’s Atlanta Business Chronicle by Urvaksh Karkaria : Atlanta has historically been a business-to-business software town — famous for building the computer programs that keep corporate America humming. and The Coca-Cola Co., attract graphic design, animation and digital media talent to the city.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. I've been in venture now twice. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. What's the message?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

There are two reasons to raise money: You have a killer idea that is only partially validated, that you think can get to $50M+ of revenue in 5 years with 80%+ gross margins (if margins are lower, you need a lot more revenue)and you need money to get to product-market fit, or. Not all startups need outside investment to grow.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 24, 2021

Fast forward to today, and the pain point is still here, but we now have a technology team to implement and run our tech stack, which includes, Salesforce, Netsuite, Slack, and many others. Given how complex some of these cloud application implementations and configurations are, the revenue pool is vast. Far from it. Enter Salto.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because. we had no revenue. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals. Investors see a lot of pitches.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris. If you plop your company here, great things could happen. Venture Capital from Northern and Southern Cal is flowing into the L.A.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You can listen to the episode here. From there, it further shifted to operating its own refrigerated warehouse and fleet of delivery vans to deliver organic foods directly from farmers and specialty suppliers. It might cater to new customers, it might solve a different need, or it might involve a different revenue model.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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